Teenage Insanity

I don't know how many of you have spent much time with teenagers, but they are on the level of two year olds at times. They have absolutely no impulse control. They just do stuff without thinking. For example, my duty in the morning is to monitor the hallway by the water fountain. Students are allowed to go into my room, but I can't really see what is going on in there. It makes me nervous, but I am supposed to be monitoring the water fountain. The principal does random checks to see if we are in the right place, when we are supposed to be. I do my job. So, today as the bell rang and I was entering my room I knew something was up. You can just feel when things are not quite right.The kids were hanging around the window. I told them to get in their seats it was time to start class. One kid looked like he was mad. I thought maybe they had had a little arguement or something. I started class, and was moving along fairly well, when the principal comes to me and wants to know which one of my students yelled out the window at the policeman. I, of course, had no idea. I sent the kid who looked mad out to the principal. It wasn't him. It was this other kid who has been in a lot of trouble already with the police. He yelled out the window that policemen suck, and that they were pigs. Did he not think the other kids would rat him out? Or that a policeman couldn't figure out who was bullying him? The principal took him and his things away. I doubt I will see this kid for awhile. Impulse control is a very important skill to learn in dealing with other people in society. Pray that your children develop this skill. Pray that I continue to have my own impulse control in place when dealing with teenagers for years to come. :)